Incident Response
Sophos: Backups are in Ransomware Groups’ Crosshairs
Enterprises that ignore their data backups, in contemplating ransomware, do so at their own peril, according to cybersecurity firm Sophos. Protecting backups will significantly reduce the harm to a company hit by ...
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Lacework Adds Visualization Capabilities to CNAPP
Lacework today added multiple capabilities to its namesake cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), promising to make it simpler for security analysts to correlate threats using, for example, graph technology the company developed ...
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The Cybersecurity Industry Starts Picking Through Malicious XZ Utils Code
The open source community, federal agencies and cybersecurity researchers are busy trying to get their hands around the security near-miss of the backdoor found in versions of the popular XZ Utils data ...
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PyPI Goes Quiet After Huge Malware Attack: 500+ Typosquat Fakes Found
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Emergency stop button: The Python Package Index was drowning in malicious code again, so they had to shut down registration for cleanup ...
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Industrial Enterprise Operational Technology Under Threat From Cyberattacks
One in four industrial enterprises had to temporarily cease operations due to cyberattacks within the past year, suggesting operational technology must improve ...
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Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones
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Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support ...
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Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data
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Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit ...
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Complex Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub Developers
Unidentified threat actors used multiple tactics to launch a sophisticated software supply-chain campaign targeting developers on the GitHub platform, including members of the popular Top.gg community that includes more than 170,000 members ...
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US, UK Accuse China of Years-Long Cyberespionage Campaign
The United States, the UK, and other countries this week accused a state-sponsored Chinese threat group of running a massive global hacking campaign for more than a decade that targeted political figures, ...
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Embrace Generative AI for Security, But Use Caution
Generative AI will be a net positive for security, but with a large caveat: It could make security teams dangerously complacent ...
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